Mumbai, May 27 -- Tech Mahindra Ltd has appointed Santosh Kumar Jha, formerly with mid-cap IT services firm KPIT Technologies, to head its global capability centres (GCC) business, according to three people familiar with the development. Tech Mahindra is the fourth large Indian IT services company to make such an appointment in the past three months.

The move marks a strategic push by the Pune-based firm to grow its GCC vertical, as the company builds out a consulting-led services portfolio and seeks to expand beyond its core telecom business.

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Jha, who joined Tech Mahindra in March as senior vice-president, was earlier executive director at Maryland-based...